[Samba] DomainDnsZone Replication Shows 200,000 Objects

[Günter Kukkukk]

Am 14.01.2014 03:56, schrieb Günter Kukkukk:
> Am 13.01.2014 23:47, schrieb Achim Gottinger:
>> Am 13.01.2014 18:39, schrieb lp101:
>>>     It looks like 15,000 records have been deleted over a period of 8 hours. This was after changing the attribute to 30 days. Do you know how to
>>> force replication for the Domain DNS Deleted Objects? Replicating the DominDnsZones using Samba-tool drs replicate doesn't appear to replicate these
>>> objects.
>>>     I've attempted to join a DC again over a 1.5Mbit Wan link using Samba 4.1.4 on Ubuntu 12.04. At this moment I'm over 19hrs in with 312355/385196
>>> replicated. I joined using "--domain-critical-only" thinking it may exclude these items but I was wrong.
>> Thank you fro the update. Can it be you have an few sites whom are not directly connected? This does slow down replication. Hope it works for you this
>> time, but didn't it fail at ~350000 objects last time?
>>
>>
> 
> FYI - the samba ISC bind DLZ plugin does a different approach.
> When all child DNS entry are gone, it _leaves_ the directory storage as:
> (sambatool dns query .... output)
> 
> Name=mytest, Records=0, Children=0
> 
> So the record is _not_ deleted - more or less "left as an unused entry".
> Those entries can be re-used later, but can also accumulate when not
> being re-used.
> 
> As i've seen with a windows7 client during normal operation, it deletes
> its A and AAAA records and then registers one/both again in some interval
> of about 5 to 10 minutes! (Could be due i was running the MS MMC DNS plugin).
> 
> This behavior is atm handled fine with the DLZ driver - but is somewhat FATAL
> for the internal DNS server: It creates LOTS of deleted dns entries!
> 
> So i've reverted the patch
>      8b24c43b382740106474e26dec59e1419ba77306
> which was deleting the whole dns entry.
> 
> After this revert the internal dns server behaves the same as the DLZ driver and
> leaves those
>    Name=mytest, Records=0, Children=0
> records around - BUT THEN the current implementation is NOT able to add
> new incoming records!
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9559
> 
> Atm i did a very first simple patch to the internal dns, which allows
> to add new entries in that
>   Name=mytest, Records=0, Children=0
> formerly failing state.
> 
> Now the internal dns _seems_ to behave similar to the DLZ driver, but
> more investigation is needed because dns entries can be "static" or
> "time stamped" ....
> 
> So i'm still looking at all related infos ....
> 
> Btw - has someone seen "strange" behavior in this area when the
> DLZ driver is used?
> 
> Cheers, Günter
> 

Atm i'm trying to collect as much info as possible.

Can someone comment on this article/patch ?
   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2548145/en-us

Cheers, Günter

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